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Secretary-General of International Islamic Relief Organization in Saudi Arabia

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Secretary-General of International
Islamic Relief Organization in Saudi Arabia: Our programs aim to developing the
communities and liberate them from the clutches of underdevelopment

* We care with endowment,
professional investment and achieve pioneering in charitable and institutional work
and serving the development and reconstruction.

* Stable sources of funding for
humanitarian projects should be provided to avoid the economic shocks and to
ensure its continuity.

* We have partnerships with varied
bodies and hospitals to aid Syria and we got ISO certificates and transparency from
international organizations.

The march of the International
Islamic Relief Organization in Saudi Arabia constitutes a rich experience over
the past 37 years. As we huge experiences, successes and programs that are carried
out in various parts of the world via 36 offices abroad and 26 in the Kingdom.

Secretary- General of the International
Islamic Relief Dr. Ehsan Saleh Al-Taieb has vast experience in the field of
humanitarian and social work. He is one of the characters that has specialized scientific
status and varied expertise in different social and humanitarian activities.
Moreover, he had contributions in the charitable societies, their development,
expanding their horizons and opening channels between the state, represented in
the Ministry of Social Affairs and the civil society institutions. As well as he
has great history with the juvenile Houses, prisons, guidance houses, observation
Houses, and anti-begging Houses in various social activities that brings
benefits to the community. The workers and officials in these sectors called
him the lover of charitable work.

Cooperation
and reconstruction of Earth

From his experience Dr. Al-Taiebviews
that the success of charitable work is based on believing the idea that man was
created for the reconstruction of the earth and cooperation in the righteousness and piety matter is divine
order as Allah the Almighty says, " And unto (the tribe of) A'ad (We sent)
their brother, Hud. He said: O my people! Serve Allah! Ye have no other Allah
save Him. Lo! ye do but invent." this verse explains that the purpose of Allah's
creation of man is to worship and the reconstruction of the earth. Then this is
the basis for the construction of human life, after that joint cooperation comes
as a second basis. Allah the Almighty says, "Help not one another unto sin
and transgression, but keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is severe in
punishment."
He pointed out that the role of philanthropy work grows as a third sector in developing
the communities as well as the public and private sectors. In this context, the
relief Foundation contributed with diversified activity in relief, health, and
socialfield. We sought to establish partnerships, alliances, building potentials
and support programs for continuous improvement.

Al-Taieb indicated that the Islamic
Relief Organizationseeks to be a
reference to the humanitarian and charitable work and the first choice of
donors and through care with endowment and professional investment to implement
its programs and projects for developing the communities to achieve pioneering in
charitable and institutional work and serving the development and
reconstruction.

Educational
programs

Thesecretary-general stated that
the goals of Relief Organization are many and varied. It includesaiding the refugee,
implement the sacrificeprograms and providing humanitarian assistance to the
poor and the needy. The fields of its work are based on building schools as giving
attention to education because it is the corner stone of changing in the
communities, supporting educational institutions, providing scholarships for
students, contributing in the support of curriculum of all educational stages,
printingthe educational books and receive surplus of the textbooks and sending
them to poor communities to take advantage of them and providing temporary
education schools for the displaced or refugees.

Urgent
relief

Providing urgent relief is one
of the field work of the Organization, including emergency aid for the victims
of civil wars and natural disasters all over the world and caring the refugees,
migrants and displaced healthy, educationally and morally and finding ways and
means to reach those affected as soon as possible and to cooperate with all bodies
working in the field of emergency relief to focus on the efforts and reduce the
costs and ease the suffering of people and standing by their side and extending
a helpful to them, transforming the refugees' status to give a vivid picture for
the donor to extend a helpful hand to his brothers. This is translated by the
foundation to continue its efforts in relieving the Syrian people, setting up refugee
camps for the Syrians in Lebanon with providing a decent shelters for them.

Memorizing
and teaching the Holy Quran

Dr. Taiebexplained that caring
memorizing and teaching the holy Quran is one of the pioneering activities of
the organization in compliance with the command of Allah Almighty who said in
the Holy Quran, "And there may spring from you a nation who invite to
goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are
successful."(Al-Imran 104) The organization is interested in intensifying
the efforts preaching and teaching Quran and highlighting the Da'awi aspect in
its activities and programs, connecting the other work of the organization with
calling to Allah the Almighty and Hisholy book. It was decided to establish a
program of Holy Quran and Da'wah as one
of the specialized programs to implement this important task in a way that
gains Allah'swill.

The organization engineering department
is active in the field ofschool
construction, digging wells, the construction of mosques, Quranic centers,
clinics, hospitals, shelters, training centers,Islamic complexes,
civilizational centers, orphanages, and widows' houses and the needy, and the
distribution of water coolers within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the
Islamic countries and regions of the presence of Muslims around the world.

Community
Development

Dr. Al-Taieb continued illustrating
hisorganization experience saying, that in the basis of enhancing solidarity
between the individual and society and embodiment of compassion and empathy meanings
the organization represented in its scattered offices across the Kingdom sought to provide support and aidto the
needy inside and outside the Kingdom.In this framework the organization established
a special department under the name (Department of Community Development ) to
take care of some segments of society, such as widows, orphans, the elderly,
the people with special needs, the disabled, the sick and needy families, the
families of prisoners, divorced, the families affected by disasters and
calamities, productive families, the drug addicts, the juveniles and caring the
poor students. He pointed out that this trend strengthened the desire of some
businessmen and philanthropists toparticipate in the charitable work in the
host country and the desire of the organization to benefit them from the food
stuff, other household appliances and furnishings that are difficult to be
shipped outside the Kingdom.

He stressed that the community
development programs aims to rehabilitate people to contribute in developing
the communities and release them from the clutches of underdevelopment by
relying on themselves out of the base "give me an ax to work with", teach him how to fish instead of giving
him a fish. He referred to the organization'scare of the projects, anti-poverty
programs, human development programs,the productive families programs, combating
desertification, agricultural projects, housing and programs to support the
families of prisonersand conducting electricity for the homes of some poor
families.

He pointed out that when the custodian
of the two Holy mosques launched the public campaign for relieving the affected
in Syria, the organization was one of the institutions that responded to the initiative.
He explained that the organization was keen to implement its programs according
to a studied scientific approach and held partnerships with hospitals and
numerous organizations. Thanks to Allah we obtained ISO certificates and
transparency from a number of international organizations.
He stressed the need to provide stable sources of funding for humanitarian
projects in order to avoid economic shocks and to ensure its continuous role.

We extend our sincere appreciationsto
Dr. Ehsan Saleh Al-Taieb the secretary-general of the International Islamic
Relief Organization in Saudi Arabia for this interview. We ask Allah the Almighty
to grant him good healthand peace be upon our master Muhammad and his family
and his companions, and praise be to Allah. Lord of the Worlds